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Torn pieces of fresh brioche beside a flute of golden Champagne on a marble counter, lees visible through the base of the glass — Brioche starts in the chardonnay
Champagne

Taittinger and where the brioche note in Champagne begins

Somebody hands you a glass, you smell it, and the word that arrives is bread....
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Rough white chalk blocks stacked beside a narrow flute of pale Champagne, ancient cellar tunnels curving into darkness — Chalk explains the lean taste
Champagne

Ruinart, chalk and why Blanc de Blancs tastes lean

Someone pours you a glass, you drink it, and your first thought is that it...
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Dozens of identical Champagne glasses lined in rows on a steel tasting bench, a blending beaker and pipette beside stacked ledgers — Consistency is the harder skill
Champagne

Moet & Chandon and the hard work of tasting the same

A wedding banquet in Tsim Sha Tsui gets through forty bottles of Champagne over four...
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A row of clear glass Champagne bottles beside opaque dark ones on a chalk cellar shelf, a narrow shaft of light crossing — Reserve wine offsets light strike
Champagne

Louis Roederer, light strike and the reserve wine behind it

Leave a bottle of pale wine on a bright windowsill for an afternoon and it...
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Dark red grape skins steeping in pale juice inside a glass vat, rose tint spreading slowly under cool cellar light — Rose Champagne the harder way
Champagne

Laurent-Perrier and the harder way to make rose Champagne

There are two ways to make a pink Champagne, and they are not two versions...
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A handful of grapes filling a small wicker basket beside a modest hand press, a single vine row fading into fog — Small houses have real limits
Champagne

Jeeper and what a small Champagne house can and cannot do

Two producers make Champagne from the same slope in the same year. One of them...
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Rows of identical glass demijohns holding amber reserve wine along a dim cellar shelf, uniform tone across every jar — Reserve wine keeps house taste
Champagne

Henriot and how a house tastes the same every year

Here is a problem worth sitting with for a moment. The weather in northern France...
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Stacked oak barrel staves leaning against a champagne riddling rack inside a chalk cellar, a single candle burning nearby — Oak reshapes Champagne flavour
Champagne

Henri Giraud and what oak does to Champagne

Take one batch of juice, split it in half, and ferment one half in a...
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A single champagne flute catching candlelight on a stone ledge above a chalk cellar stair, the room beyond empty — This bottle sells a signal
Champagne

What Dom Perignon is actually doing on the table

A bottle lands on the table at a banquet and does its work before anyone...
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Dozens of identical unlabelled Champagne bottles racked together in a cooperative cellar, a grower ledger open on a crate — Two letters on the label matter
Champagne

Chassenay d'Arce and the two letters on a Champagne label

Somewhere on the label of every bottle of Champagne, usually in type small enough that...
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A magnifying glass resting over a blank cream label propped against an unlabelled Champagne bottle — Village rating hides on the label
Champagne

Charles Mignon and the village rating on the label

For most of the twentieth century, the price of a kilo of Champagne grapes was...
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A pile of coins beside an empty riddling rack and a coil of wire muselet cages, dust motes in a shaft of cellar light — Where the Champagne money goes
Champagne

Charles de Cazanove and where the Champagne money goes

Here is a question worth sitting with. Two bottles of Champagne on the same shelf,...
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